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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Scrambles to Salvage Election After Donald Trump's Latest Imbroglio — Republican candidates and party officials disavow presidential candidate, seek personal paths to political survival — A divided Republican Party descended into turmoil, as a startling chorus of GOP candidates …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
WHIP LIST: Republicans breaking with Trump — GOP lawmakers and elected officials are abandoning presidential nominee Donald Trump — in droves just one month before Election Day after audio emerged of him making sexually obscene remarks about groping women.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
With less than a month to go, a major party is walking away from its nominee — With less than a month to go before the election, a major political party is poised to walk away from its own presidential nominee — a situation with few precedents in American political history.
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Former RNC chair: Trump campaign can't be salvaged — A former chairman of the Republican National Committee said there's not much hope left for Donald Trump — or the GOP this cycle. — In an interview with Mother Jones, Michael Steele said there's no way Trump can recover from the damage …
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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Why Republicans can't easily dump Trump off the ballot
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Why Republicans Are Probably Stuck With Donald Trump
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Politico and The Mahablog
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Dump Trump, Now More Than Ever
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New York Times:
Lewd Donald Trump Tape Is a Breaking Point for Many in the G.O.P.
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Jordyn Phelps Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Trump Vows 'Zero Chance I'll Quit' in Wake of Fallout From His Vulgar Comments
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton team girds for all-out assault — The bombshell Donald Trump video that surfaced Friday has so dramatically altered expectations for Sunday's town hall debate that one Democrat close to Bill and Hillary Clinton had a new view of what may unfold in St. Louis: “Expect Armageddon.”
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump just retweeted Juanita Broaddrick calling Bill Clinton a rapist. All bets are now off. — In the wake of a newly released video showing Donald Trump talking in very lewd terms about women, he strongly suggested he would now take this opportunity to compare his own indiscretions to Bill Clinton's.
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
“Shame On You!”: Trump Supporters Clash With Republican Leaders — ELKHORN, Wisconsin — In a jarring illustration of the chaos now engulfing the Republican Party, supporters of Donald Trump clashed bitterly with GOP leaders at a rally here Saturday — booing elected officials …
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CNN:
Donald Trump to Howard Stern: It's okay to call my daughter a ‘piece of ass’ — Topics Trump discussed: Ivanka's physique, having sex with women on their menstrual cycles. and leaving women after they reach the age of 35. — (CNN)Warning: This story contains graphic language.
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Washington Post:
Inside Trump Tower: The defiant and insulated Republican nominee — ST. LOUIS — He beamed in just after midnight Saturday like a captive in his own gilded cage. A man who demands the best of everything was speaking to America from a dimly lit, home-built studio against a fake backdrop …
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Associated Press:
Leaked Campaign Emails Show ‘Moderate’ Side of Clinton — Hillary Clinton took nearly every precaution to ensure voters would never know what she told investment bankers, lobbyists and corporate executives in dozens of closed-door paid speeches before running for president.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC halts Victory project work for Trump — POLITICO obtains email sent to vendors to ‘hold/stop’ all mail program efforts. — The Republican National Committee on Saturday appeared to at least temporarily halt the operations of some of the “Victory” program that is devoted to electing Donald Trump.
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
RNC lawyers look at options for replacing Trump
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
How McCain finally decided he couldn't stomach Trump anymore — Donald Trump criticized John McCain last year for being a prisoner of war and for not doing enough for veterans, then attacked a Gold Star family this summer. McCain criticized Trump at each turn, but stuck by his pledges to support the Republican nominee.
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Occupy Democrats
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Senator John McCain, Arizona:
STATEMENT FROM JOHN McCAIN WITHDRAWING SUPPORT OF DONALD TRUMP
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John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Just Lost The Election
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Media Matters for America
Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
“The Apprentice” Under Pressure To Release Unaired Trump Footage — Your move, Mark Burnett. — Pressure is building on The Apprentice producers to release unaired raw footage of the show after Friday's release of a 2005 hot mic video of Donald Trump apparently bragging about sexually assaulting women …
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Independent Journal Review and Vox
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Exclusive poll: GOP voters want the party to stand by Trump — A wave of Republican officials abandoned Donald Trump on Saturday, but, at least for now, rank-and-file Republicans are standing by the party's presidential candidate, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted immediately …
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The Week
Desert Sun:
Two slain police officers identified in Palm Springs shooting — (Oct. 8, 2016) Gabby Ferriera/The Desert Sun — Two police officers were killed and one was wounded in a shooting in Palm Springs on Saturday, plunging the community into mourning as police searched for the suspect.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WOW! CROWDS THRONG To Trump Tower — NYPD CHEERS TRUMP ON LOUD SPEAKER! (VIDEO) — Guest post by Tom Franklin at American Lookout: — In the wake of the Trump tapes, some RINOs have backed away from Trump. They wanted to, anyway. Now they think they have an excuse. — But the people aren't having it.
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